A Cancer on the Court

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On The Gist, the biases of Peter Strzok and the need to connect accusations with actual evidence. President Trump's first appointment to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, benefited from anonymous donations worth millions. To Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, this "dark money" has created a frightening loop: Deemed lawful by the Supreme Court in 2010, it gives special interests a lock not just on elected officials, but on the courts themselves. In the Spiel, Trump might not know the difference between Wisconsin and Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me be explicit right now in this podcast.
0:03.4	There's some explicit language.
0:08.1	Thursday, July 12, 2018, from slated to the gist,
0:11.4	I'm Mike Pasca, Peter Strock, pronounced Strock, much to the confusion of several elected officials
0:18.7	on the House Judiciary Committee was testifying today, trying to explain how he,
0:24.7	as an FBI agent, dealt with bias.
0:28.5	He made a consistent argument.
0:30.3	He said that as a human, he has bias, but as an FBI employee,
0:35.5	he sets the bias aside.
0:37.8	Again, bias, yes, bias affecting the job never.
0:42.3	They would not tolerate any improper behavior in me,
0:45.1	any more than I would tolerate it in them.
0:47.3	That is who we are as the FBI and the suggestion that I and some dark chamber
0:51.5	somewhere in the FBI would somehow cast aside all of these procedures,
0:56.3	all of these safeguards, and somehow be able to do this is astounding to me.
1:00.2	It simply couldn't happen.
1:01.9	And the proposition that that is going on, that it might occur anywhere in the FBI,
1:06.2	deeply corrods what the FBI is in American society, the effectiveness of their mission,
1:12.7	and it is deeply destructive.
1:14.7	They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they,
1:17.7	So what we had, where some charges against Strock over the disquiet he felt
1:23.5	concerning a Donald Trump presidency, and yes, he expressed that disquiet in private texts
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